NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Lynx changed its name to Cougar during May 2002 in order to avoid name
conflict with the famous text-mode Web browser. Cougar is a
hierarchical layout extractor. It builds a netlist of interconnections
from a symbolic layout view. The input argument is the name of the
symbolic layout cell to be extracted, using as input format the one
selected by the MBK_IN_PH(1) environment variable. If output is
present, the resulting netlist will be given this name. If no output
is given, then input will also be the generated netlist name. The
output format is specified by the MBK_OUT_LO(1) environment variable.
As most of the Alliance cad tools, cougar uses mbk(1) environment
variables. MBK_CATA_LIB(1), MBK_WORK_LIB(1), MBK_IN_PH(1),
MBK_OUT_LO(1), RDS_TECHNO_NAME(1).
Cougar computes capacitances attached to the signals if the -ac option
is set. At the moment, the value of these capacitances is computed for
a typical one micron technology, and cannot be changed by the user
through a technology file. The extracted netlist can be simulated for
performance evaluation.
The typical capacitances are given below in 10e-18 farad / lamda^2 :
POLY 100
ALU1 50
ALU2 25

OPTIONS

Cougar checks the two basic ALLIANCE rules regarding connector names:
If two physical connectors are connected to the same net, they
must have the same name.
If two physical connectors have the same name, they must be
internally connected to the same net.
As a result only one logical connector will appear in the netlist. A
fatal error occurs if one of those two rules is violated ( even for
power and ground connectors )
When no options are specified, the current hierarchical level is
extracted. The resulting netlist is the list of interconnections of
the current layout hierarchy level. Three options are available to
change cougar behaviour :
-t Notifies a transistor level extraction, the symbolic layout cell
is flattened to transistor layout before extraction.
-f The symbolic layout cell is flattened to the catalog level
before extraction. Use "man catal" for detail on the catalog
file. If the catalog is empty, or doesn't exist, the netlist is
an interconection of transistors, if it isn't, the netlist is
an interconection of gates or blocks whose names are defined in
the catalog.
-v Verbose mode on. Each step of the extraction is displayed on
the standard output, along with some statistics.
-c Generates a core file representing the conflictuel net, when
cougar detects two external connectors with different names on
the same signal, or when it finds two external connectors having
the same name but not internally connected to the same net, or
when it cannot correctly extract an L shaped transistor.
-ac Extract capacitance to ground on losig.
-ar Extract interconnect resistance and capacitance to ground. Value
of resistance foreach layer can be changed in the RDS file.

EXAMPLES

prompt>cougar-vamd2901
Gives a logical netlist of the chip amd2901, for one
hierarchical level, using verbose mode. This would be typically
used to verify the work of the ring(1) router, in conjunction
with lvx on the specificated netlist and the extracted one.
prompt>cat$MBK_WORK_LIB/$MBK_CATAL_NAMEa2_ya2p_y..prompt>cougar-famd2901
Gives a logical netlist of the chip amd2901, after a flatten
operation stopping on the cells specified in the catalog ( the
standard cell library in our case ).
prompt>cougar-tamd2901
Gives a logical netlist of the amd2901 chip at the transistor
level. This is useful with yagle(1), to retrieve logical
equations from a layout.